The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for our Spring 2025 artist grants. 

  
We are offering $3,500 and $1,000 grants to artists and photographers around the world.

  
The Hopper Prize was established in order to increase the recognition of artwork created by artists and photographers. Our aim is to advance artists' careers by providing them with unrestricted financial support that is coupled with a platform for increased visibility. We accept submissions twice a year via an open call.

  
We are currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2025 grant cycle.

  
**Program Highlights**

Total Awards: $11,000.00 USD for visual artists

— $3,500.00 – 2 artists will each receive a $3,500 (USD) grant

— $1,000.00 – 4 artists will each receive a $1,000 (USD) grant

— 30 artists will have their work archived at hopperprize.org

— A selection from the submissions will be featured on our Instagram feed @hopperprize

— Additional exposure will be available to winners through our Journal: Insights into Contemporary Art

  
**Expand Your Network**

Our open call provides you with a direct path to get your work in front of an international community of curators, artists, gallerists, and arts administrators. Grant winners and finalists will join an international roster of past recipients who have gone on to exhibit their work at major galleries, museums, arts fairs, and biennials.

  
6 artists from our open call will each receive an unrestricted cash grant. 

  
2 artists will win $3,500 and 4 artists will win $1,000\. 

  
30 artists will have their work archived at hopperprize.org.

  
Grant awards are unrestricted and may be used any way the recipients choose.

  
When submitting your work, you will have the option to opt-in to be considered for possible Instagram features on our feed @hopperprize, where we currently reach an audience of over 150k. Our editors will be featuring select submissions on a rolling basis prior to the application deadline.

  
In addition to grant awards, our shortlist, and Instagram reach, we will be providing an additional platform for exposure via our online Journal Insights Into Contemporary Art (https://hopperprize.org/journal/). We launched this digital publication to give artists a new channel to amplify their voice while providing an in-depth look at their work, practice, and background. Grant recipients and shortlisted artists will all receive the opportunity to publish an interview to include any work of their choosing as a means of providing continued support beyond the open call.

  
**Eligibility**

The Hopper Prize is open to all artists around the world age 18 and older working in any media. There are no restrictions on genre, subject matter, or media. We welcome entries in all media.

  
International artists are eligible to apply.

  
We are committed to supporting artists from diverse cultural backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers. All artists are encouraged to apply.

  
**Recent Winners**

We support artists working in all media, from diverse backgrounds, in wide-ranging geographic locations. Recent grant winners include:

— Alex Bex, Berlin, Germany

— Suzanne Clements, London, United Kingdom

— Liam Fallon, London, United Kingdom

— Liza Jo Eilers, Chicago, Illinois

— Nicole Economides, Athens, Greece

— Paree Rohera, Providence, Rhode Island

— Hai-Wen Lin, Chicago, Illinois

— Antonio Scott Nichols, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

— Ariana Gomez, Austin, Texas

— Derek Franklin, Portland, Oregon

— Ingmar Björn Nolting, Leipzig, Germany

— Abdulhamid Kircher, Los Angeles, California

— Allison L. Wade, Chicago, Illinois

— Andreia Santana, Lisbon, Portugal & New York, New York

— Anna Perach, London, United Kingdom

— Jimena Chávez Delion, Lima, Peru

— Krystle Lemonias, Phillipsburg, New Jersey

— Ville Kansanen, California

— Emily Kraus, London, United Kingdom

— M’hammed Kilito, Casablanca, Morocco

— Emily Weiner, Nashville, Tennessee

— Judd Schiffman, Providence, Rhode Island

— Mar Figueroa, New York, New York

— Eli Durst, Austin, Texas

— Britt Ransom, New Orleans, Louisiana

— Azadeh Gholizadeh, Chicago, Illinois

— Brittany Miller, Bronx, New York

— Galina Kurlat, Brooklyn, New York

— In June Park, Brooklyn, New York

— Rafael Perez Evans, London, United Kingdom

— Jazmine Harris, Chicago, Illinois

— Anya Roberts-Toney, Portland, Oregon

— Cathy Hsiao, Chicago, Illinois

— Julia Gutman, Sydney, Australia

— Sagarika Sundaram, New York, New York

— Abi Salami, Dallas, Texas

— Abigail Lucien, Baltimore, Maryland

— Hasani Sahlehe, Atlanta, Georgia

— Laura Berger, Chicago, Illinois

— Jennifer Sirey, Brooklyn, New York

— Cielo Felix-Hernandez, Richmond, Virginia

— Akihiro Boujoh, Utrecht, Netherlands

— Joey Solomon, Brooklyn, New York

— Lynnea Holland-Weiss, Cleveland, Ohio

— Susan Chen, Hartford, Connecticut

— Yannick Lowery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

— Andrea Ferrero, Mexico City, Mexico

— Christopher Desanges, Boston, Massachusetts

— Dominic Hawgood, London, United Kingdom

— Kira Dominguez Hultgren, San Francisco, California

— Vikesh Kapoor, Sunset Pines

— Adrian Coleman, London, United Kingdom

— Trish Tillman, New York, New York

— Nicholas Moenich, Brooklyn, New York

— Elena Bajo, Los Angeles, California

— Vanessa da Silva, London, United Kingdom

— Mark Baugh-Sasaki, San Francisco, California

— Genevieve Cohn, Bloomington, Indiana

— Sydney Cook, Baltimore, Maryland

— Jinyong Park, London, United Kingdom

— Isabel Yellin, Los Angeles, California

— Alex Callender, Northampton, Massachusetts

— Alicia Eggert, Denton, Texas

— Daniel McCarthy Clifford, Minneapolis, Minnesota

— Juan Giraldo, New York, New York

— Maja Ruznic, Los Angeles, California

— Letitia Huckaby, Benbrook, Texas

— Tracy Kerdman, Saugerties, New York

— Lebohang Kganye, Johannesburg, South Africa

— Christopher Meerdo, Chicago, Illinois

— Erik Parra, San Francisco, California

  
**Deadline**

May 13, 2025

  
**Simple Application**

We made our grant application simple to reduce the stress of submitting your work and save you time. The application is short and can be completed in under 20 minutes.

To apply for a grant, you only need to submit this information:

— Name & Email

— Instagram Username (optional)

— Up to 10 Image or Video attachments

— Artwork captions

— Artist Statement & Biography (optional)

— $40 submission fee

  
**Apply Now**

Show us your work at https://hopperprize.org

Total Awards: $11,000.00 USD for visual artists

— $3,500.00 – 2 artists will each receive a $3,500 (USD) grant

— $1,000.00 – 4 artists will each receive a $1,000 (USD) grant

— 30 artists will have their work archived at hopperprize.org

— A selection from the submissions will be featured on our Instagram feed @hopperprize

— Additional exposure will be available to winners through our Journal: Insights into Contemporary Art

$3,500 & $1,000 Artist Grants

Canal Convergence seeks proposals for outdoor, temporary public artworks to be featured in and around the Arizona Canal at the Scottsdale Waterfront in Scottsdale, Arizona. Canal Convergence will be on view for 10 nights, from Nov. 7–16, 2025\. Some projects may be selected to remain installed for an additional 1–2 months after the Canal Convergence event dates. This year’s central theme is “Showtime!”

  
 This call specifically targets outdoor, light-based installations. Nighttime presence/activation is required; daytime presence/activation is encouraged.

  
**A**rtwork Considerations for Canal Convergence 2025:

* Propose an artwork that speaks to the 2025 featured theme, Showtime!
* Present multiple (2-3) installations for the event that can be shipped to and from Canal Convergence in the same truck, container, etc.
* Propose art installations that can be located in smaller, more narrow sections of the ground, ground that is not level, and/or integrated into the landscaping without damaging or destroying any plants.
* Submit art installation proposals that do not require 24-hour security.

  
This call is Phase I of II. Phase I asks artists to focus primarily on the proposal concept, images, rendering, and estimated total budget. Once Phase I closes on April 23, 2025, up to 30 proposals will be selected for Phase II via Scottsdale Public Art staff review. These artists will be asked to provide more detailed information on their proposals, which will be presented to a final selection panel composed of Scottsdale Arts staff and advisory board members, the city of Scottsdale and Salt River Project staff, and community stakeholders. Required additional information for Phase II will include, but is not limited to, a detailed timeline, itemized budget, support crew, heavy equipment and power requirements, etc.

  
**Event Information:**

Canal Convergence | Showtime!

November 7–16, 2025

Fridays and Saturdays: 6–10 p.m.

Monday-Thursday and Sundays: 6–9 p.m.

Scottsdale Waterfront in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.

Free Admission

**Budget:** We will accept budgets between $5,000 and $35,000 (USD), with a limited number of larger budgets (up to $50,000 USD) being awarded to new commissions and/or major works of a larger physical scale. Artists wishing to provide proposals for larger-scale budgets are required to demonstrate experience in successfully producing projects to the scale being proposed. 

  
Artwork displayed in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

Call for Public Art: Canal Convergence 2025

Free to apply. Pay for the costs ONLY if selected.

**Exhibit in Brazil - Fragmentos Exhibition** 

  
**Show your work in Brazil without having to be physically present.**

The artists will not have to worry about anything. 

No printing, no framing, no crating, no shipping, no customs. 

We will take care of every detail.

  
**\- OPEN THEME**

  
**\- Artists from all nationalities, backgrounds and styles are welcome.** 

  
**\- All mediums accepted** but the artworks must be in DIGITAL FORMAT, meaning that paintings, mix-media, sculptures and other formats will have to be photographed and sent to us. Short videos are also accepted.

  
\- We will print and mount all the selected images in Brazil.

  
**\- FREE Submission** \- Only the artists who get selected for the exhibition will be asked to pay the participation fee in order to cover the expenses.

  
**\- Submission Deadline: Thu** **24 April 2025**

  
Please visit our website for more info.

https://www.artlymix.com/open-calls/

Exhibit in Brazil - Fragmentos Exhibition   

The Agility Award is an Arts Council funding scheme for individual professional artists and arts practitioners who have not been previously funded as an individual by the Arts Council. You can apply for the Agility Award if you want to: 

  
• Develop your practice 

• Develop your work 

• Develop your skills. 

**You can apply for any amount between €1,500 and €5,000.** _You can’t apply for any amounts below €1,500 or above €5,000\. If you do, your application will be ineligible, and we won’t assess it._ 

Agility Award

**Contrast!, Issue 4 is an exhibition and a publication surrounding the theme and concept of contrast- what it means in art and how it is portrayed. We encourage you to take the idea as conceptually or literally as possible, as it is a form of creative research on how contrast as an concept appears in art.**

  
This is the final edition of the Contrast publication and there will be no more Contrast publications thereafter. Therefore the exhibition will span two months in total to celebrate this. 

Contrast Issue 4

The "Luis Ferreira Alves International Photography Competition | A Contemporary Look at Architecture" is a biennial programme. It aims to honour the person and the work of this outstanding photographer, who bridged the gap between analogue and digital photography and whose work is recognised both nationally and internationally.

  
Luis Ferreira Alves' photographic work demonstrates a remarkable ability to create a unique perspective, both "objective" and "subjective", on the work of various renowned Portuguese architects, including Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto de Moura. His images convey an intimate understanding of these architects—both Pritzker Prize winners—and the architectural spaces they designed. While it is true that Luis Ferreira Alves offers us visually striking documents of architectural spaces and forms, his perspective, shaped by centuries of visual culture since the Renaissance, goes beyond mere representation. His work reveals a deep understanding and appreciation of architecture due to his close relationship with the practice and discipline itself.

  
**Main Objectives**

  
* To promote a deep understanding of the practice and discipline of architecture, both in Portugal and worldwide, within broader sociocultural, artistic, technical, political, and historical systems, through the lens of photography.

  
* To communicate the significant and unique relationship that a photographer can establish with an architect and their work. We believe that this nuanced understanding is an important lesson from Luis Ferreira Alves’ architectural photography, and something that this Competition seeks to foster and strengthen, especially at a time when architecture is increasingly consumed through images.

The top three projects will receive:

  
* 1st Prize: €10.000

  
* 2nd Prize: €4.000

  
* 3rd Prize: Photography equipment voucher worth €1.500 Additionally, all winners receive a catalogue featuring their work, a certificate, and a copy of Luis Ferreira Alves in the Works of Eduardo Souto de Moura.

A Contemporary Look at Architecture

**CCA Islands offers CCA Travel Scholarship for emerging artists**, curators, architects, designers and those who aim to be a professional in various areas of contemporary art and culture, **pursuing their research and creative activities in Japan**.

The scholarship offers research expenses of JPY 200,000 and covers one return transportation fare (only to/from Japan) according to CCA Islands terms and conditions (In the case of residing in Japan, transportation expenses for one round trip between the two locations in Japan is provided).

CCA Islands Travel Scholarship 2025 – 2026

**Art Jameel launches a Curatorial Open Call for exhibition proposals, to be developed for Hayy Arts’s first floor gallery at Hayy Jameel in Jeddah for May 2026.**

  
Art Jameel is interested in exhibition proposals that engage with themes pertaining to the Red Sea – including but not limited to its connected geographies, histories, ecologies, or the movement of people and ideas.

  
The awarded curator will work alongside the Art Jameel team who will provide guidance on the exhibition’s development, exhibition production and design, logistics, and installation.

  
**Deliverables:**

* An exhibition \[group or solo\] to be delivered in the first-floor gallery of Hayy Arts for May 2026.
* Full exhibition concept including checklist of loan-able works.
* One curatorial essay \[between 3,000-5,000 words\].
* captions and interpretive texts.
* A proposal for 2-3 public programmers related to the exhibition concept.
* The selected curator must act as the main point of contact for liaising with artists and the institution and be available for interviews virtually/ in-person in Jeddah during the exhibition run.

**Award Details:**

* Curatorial fee of 37,500 SAR.
* Curator travel and accommodation fees to be covered by Art Jameel.
* Artists fees, travel and accommodation will be covered by Art Jameel.
* All related exhibition costs to do with producing, installing and promoting the exhibition to be covered by Art Jameel.

Curatorial Call for Exhibition Proposals

The Macmillan Prize for Illustration is awarded for an unpublished children’s picture book. Submissions are open for 2025!

  
Established in 1985, this prize is open to non-professional illustrators and celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The aim of the award is to stimulate new creative work that helps students to take the first steps in their professional careers. This coveted award has discovered many award-winning and bestselling talents, including Emily Gravett, Lucy Cousins, Ross Collins, Bethan Woollvin and Morag Hood. 

  
The winners will be chosen by a panel of judges comprising individuals from Macmillan as well as independent guest judges. 

a) The prizes for the winners of the Competition consist of:

  
* First Prize: £1,000
* Second Prize: £500
* Third Prize: £250

  
b) The prize-winners, plus the highly commended entrants, will be invited to a reception where the winners’ and highly commended entrants’ work will be exhibited. We intend to hold the reception in London in the summer.

Macmillan Prize for Illustration

**StART** has received requests from artists interested in doing more projects in support of Black Lives Matter, justice for Indigenous Peoples and social justice issues in support of equity deserving groups. In response, this fifth annual “Just Us” Art Call is for concepts for mural projects that recognize and create awareness of social injustice, and support equity, race relations and community engagement related to Black lives and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and equity deserving groups.

  
This call invites concepts from street, mural and graffiti artists and artist collectives committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and inspiring positive change through who they are and the work they create. Project proposals should speak to historic and current social issues and movements within Black and Indigenous communities and social justice issues in support of equity deserving groups and the importance, benefits and opportunities to build a better future through inclusion, collaboration and knowledge sharing.

  
Mural projects must be exposed to and visible from a city street. Submissions must include written authorization from the property owner granting the artist or collective permission to paint their concept on the wall. **All projects must be located in Toronto.**

Mural project in Toronto.

An Advisory Panel will select up to 8 projects from the roster to receive **up to** $5,000 based on the scale and complexity of the creation of their project.

  

'Just Us' Art Call

Founded in 2020, **Augment Music Project**, a fiscal sponsee of **Telluride Arts**, is dedicated to supporting the local music scene in the Telluride area. They believe that the vibrancy of Telluride's music scene extends beyond the major festivals and includes a very talented group of musicians who call this area home. 

Since 2023, Augment Music Project has been actively involved in Telluride Arts’ annual grant program, providing the funding and grant committee for the music category. The review and selection process aligns with the broader goals of the grant program, with a strong emphasis on the community impact of each application.

To date, Augment Music Project has awarded grants to 12 musicians/ensembles within the Telluride region. These funds have helped recipients advance their careers in various ways, including studio time, equipment purchases, and music video production. 

Augment Grant applicants are limited to one submission per grant cycle. Multiple applications for the same musician will not be considered, excepting applications submitted by another musician on behalf of an ensemble or collaborative project which a solo applicant is also a member of. 

**RECOMMENDATIONS**

* Write your application narrative in a word or google doc, prior to entry into the online form.
* Save your work as you go. | The platform times out periodically and does not autosave.
* Confirm the functionality of and accessibility to all work samples and resumes, prior to submission.

  

Musician Grants | Augment Music Project

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